He also said that a man was shot in his car at the same location no more than six months ago.

The gangbangers are visible any day of the week the former Marine Corps. member said.

"As long as it doesn't come through [my] windows I won't have to use the training they taught me in the corps. — that's not something I want to do," he said.

Congregation members at the Tabernaculo de Restauracion said they didn't hear or see the shots that killed Colon due to a worship service that was going on at the same time, but some members expressed worry for the safety of the young children eagerly running through the halls.

"We're safe inside the church but once you leave you don't know what's going to happen," said Tony Melendrez, a taxi driver who has attended the church for nearly four years. "This happened last summer in the park too."

"We need more safety, more patrols," he said.

Both Melendrez and Carlos said drug and gang activity centered the park, located at 1129-47 N. Pulaski Rd.

"It's bad everywhere, but it's common that kids can't safely play — so that's where the bangers hang out," Carlos said.

The playground and basketball court, which was renovated within the last year was empty Sunday afternoon, but more than a dozen gang markings could be seen scrawled across the the newly-laid basketball court.

Colon, of the 2900 block of West Armitage Avenue in Logan Square, was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.